Readings in world history.
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| OCLC: | 1250881 |
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| Språk: | English |
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Boston :
Allyn and Bacon,
1962.
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| Materialtyp: | Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Contents: Man and mother earth / W. C. Lowdermilk.
- Man and food: can they be balanced? / John Boyd-Orr.
- Man's resources: exhaustible or inexhaustible? / New York Times ; Eugene Holman.
- Are there superior and inferior races?
- What we think of other people / Otto Klineberg.
- How we learn about man before civilization / R. J. Braidwood.
- Man's earliest civilization / S. N. Kramer.
- Solving the mystery of Egypt's hieroglyphs / Aramco World.
- India's forgotten civilization / Stuart Piggott.
- The coming of the Iron Age / Alfred Metraux.
- India: civilization bsed on religion / Paul Carus.
- China: Civilization based on propriety / Confucius.
- Palestine: Civilization based on the law of God.
- Greece: Civilization based on the individual / Pericles.
- Invention of coinage in the classical age / Aramco World.
- Interregional trade during the classical age / Derk Bodde.
- Rome at its height / Pauline Gregg.
- German invaders and their customs / Tacitus.
- The Christian church in medieval Europe / L. J. Lekai.
- Recovery under Charlemagne / Eginhard.
- Mohammed: founder of Islam / Arab World.
- Civilization of Islam / Arab World.
- The Mongols terrorize Europe / Matthew Paris.
- Mongolia and the Mongols today / Harrison Salisbury.
- Marco Polo discovers new worlds / J. de Benito.
- The Crusades widen Europe's horizons / Aramco World.
- Europe's drive to expand overseas / Leften S. Stavrianos.
- Columbus discovers the New World / Christopher Columbus.
- Vasco Da Gama reaches India / E. G. Ravenstein.
- Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire / William Henry Prescott.
- Magellan circles the globe / Antonio Pigafetta.
- Holland challenges Portugal / the Fugger News-Letters.
- Beginnings of New France in North America / Samuel de Champlain.
- John Smith at Jamestown / John Smith.
- Frontier life in the thirteen colonies / Joseph Doddridge.
- England's triumph in North America / John Knox.
- Russia's overland expansion / G. V. Lantzell ; Serghei Aksakoff.
- Limites of European power in the eighteenth century / Alexander Frederick Whyte.
- First factories in England / Ephraim Lipson.
- Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution / Edward Baines.
- A ride on an early railway / Frances Ann Kemble.
- The place of science in western civilization / Leften S. Stavrianos.
- Science aids the economic revolution / Leften S. Stavrianos.
- Science in the modern world / H. S. Dinerstein.
- The rise of liberalism.
- The rise of nationalism.
- The rise of socialism / Friedrich Engels.
- Europe turns to expansion / Heinrich von Treitschke.
- Europe's impact upon Japan / Sakutaro Fujioka.
- An African view of European expansion / Jamo Kenyatta.
- A new life in the new world / Billy McGinty.
- The new imperialism / Leften S. Stavrianos.
- Serbian nationalism triggers WW I / M. Edith Durham.